i was pointed to this li'l tidbit concerning FrontDoor... i was asked to share it so here it is :)

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There's something going on ...
24-Aug-2017 joho Leave a comment

So I guess I took another three years to think about this, judging from the previous post(s) :-) But this time, I have actually managed to make some "progress". That is, if you consider reviving a 30 year old DOS program progress.

I have been able to get FreeDOS up and running under VirtualBox. I have been able to locate my old copies of Borland Pascal, TASM, MASM, VirtualPascal, and Watcom. I was also very glad to see that there's something called Open Watcom these days. That may prove to be very useful for this mission. The OS/2 stuff will have to wait for just a bit, I need to compile all the DOS stuff and see that the code actually still works.

The first version of FrontDoor was released in 1986 (and I managed to locate the original announcement). If I'm not mistaken, the first version of FrontDoor
with mailer capabilities was out in 1987. That's 30 years ago!


https://reboot.defsol.com/2017/08/24/theres-something-going-on/
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and there's this nice present, too...

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Do you need a FrontDoor license?

If you would like to obtain a FrontDoor license, simply drop an e-mail to defsol@defsol.se. Please include your name (as used in FrontDoor), your FTN-address, and anything else you think we may find interesting and we'll get you a license as soon as we can.

There is also a FrontDoor group on Facebook, and you may find reboot.defsol.com
to be of some interest, perhaps.
But.. why? Who cares about FrontDoor these days?

We do; well, I do anyway :-) I wanted to clean up the web site, regardless of software activity.

https://defsol.com/
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We do; well, I do anyway :-) I wanted to clean up the web site,
regardless of software activity.

https://defsol.com/

I'm not sure if I'm understanding things correctly.... are you taking over
the development of FD??

Just wondering...

Thanx

IB JOE
AKA Joe Schweier
SysOp of Joe's Computer & BBS
Telnet: joesbbs.com

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i was pointed to this li'l tidbit concerning
FrontDoor... i was asked to share it so here it is :)

Yep, and now I am connected to the echo as well :)

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We do; well, I do anyway :-) I wanted to clean up the web site,
regardless of software activity.

https://defsol.com/

I'm not sure if I'm understanding things correctly.... are you taking over the development of FD??

No, JoHo, (Joaquim Homrighausen) the original FD author, is resuming development of the software.

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No, JoHo, (Joaquim Homrighausen) the original FD author, is resuming development of the software.

wow

IB JOE
AKA Joe Schweier
SysOp of Joe's Computer & BBS
Telnet: joesbbs.com

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■ Quoting message from ib joe to Robert Wolfe
■ [03:20 at 07-Sep-17]

No, JoHo, (Joaquim Homrighausen) the original FD author, is resuming
development of the software.

wow

Yeah.

Best regards, Robert.

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On 09/06/17, mark lewis pondered and said...

So I guess I took another three years to think about this, judging from the previous post(s) :-) But this time, I have actually managed to make some "progress". That is, if you consider reviving a 30 year old DOS program progress.

I have been able to get FreeDOS up and running under VirtualBox. I have been able to locate my old copies of Borland Pascal, TASM, MASM, VirtualPascal, and Watcom. I was also very glad to see that there's something called Open Watcom these days. That may prove to be very

Been watching this story unfold... how cool is this :) Nice to see JoHo back
on the scene.

Best, Paul

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On 2017 Sep 06 17:14:36, you wrote to me:

We do; well, I do anyway :-) I wanted to clean up the web site,
regardless of software activity.

https://defsol.com/

I'm not sure if I'm understanding things correctly.... are you taking over the development of FD??

the first line of my post said that someone pointed me to that info... i quoted
the posts those URLs pointed to ;)

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the first line of my post said that someone pointed me to that info... i quoted the posts those URLs pointed to ;)

Sorry, I was a spaz.... I'm exciited to see development on FD... couldbe a windows or linux version in the future..

Thanx for the update though!!!

IB JOE
AKA Joe Schweier
SysOp of Joe's Computer & BBS
Telnet: joesbbs.com

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